openwall / openwall/john

Huge ciphertext memory use

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Since Mar 9, 2020.

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FMT_HUGE_INPUT should be used with non-default fmt_source() so we don't end up with the full ciphertext kept in memory for no use. I can't remember if we took care of that some other way, so need to review.

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